The title has been great advice since several millennia B.C. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president’s feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is “working tirelessly for a ceasefire,” the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US.
Israel has been raining hellfire on Lebanon with such extreme ferocity that as of this writing authorities can only make the roughest estimates of the number of dead. Hundreds of people were killed today.
CNN reports destruction “as large as a city block” in Beirut from a strike on six residential towers in what Israel claims was an attempt to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. From the looks of things they’ll probably be counting the dead for many days as they comb through the rubble.
As you might expect, the imperial spin machine is falling all over itself to wash the US government’s hands of this savagery. Axios has published another of its signature “sources say Biden is privately angry with Netanyahu” pieces, reporting that the president is experiencing such adjectives as “frustrated”, “humiliated” and “livid” toward the Israeli prime minister over rejected ceasefire proposals and increased escalations.
